Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Merrill Murdock of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...
Evangelist Sam Morris, the "Voice of Temperance," radio prohibitionist. His strongest card: a letter written by Morris Sheppard before his death, praising Sam Morris' fight against the Demon...
...look at the record, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel last week jumped into the Texas Senatorial campaign. There are now 21 candidates. O'Daniel's joining them made the State's special election this month, to find a successor to the late, great Prohibitionist Morris Sheppard, the biggest U.S. political show since the Presidential campaign last fall...
...Senate steering committee had stalled about filling the job left vacant by the death of Morris Sheppard of Texas for several weeks, casting a longing eye toward Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs. But the rule of seniority is dear to the Senate: historians could count only two contemporary occasions when it has been upset. Now the Senators could not bring themselves to break the rule again...
...Governor is a well-meaning man who does not understand government, and 2) that is a good thing. Since he has been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...